The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-13
CINCINNATI & BIRMINGHAM.
The New North and South Road That Is
Soon to be Built.
The Company Organised and Ready to
Push the Work Along.
Nashville Union, Both.

VI VI
les that have wide felt influence, sc
ne announcement that new road io
10 be built creates but small b
ipple of excitement except where il
he effect of this road is shown On s.
be natural resources of the section Il
through which it passes. C
Among the guests row at the i,
house is Capt. John G. e
Doug herty of Fayetteville. A I'm v
on reporter last evening was favor .
ID with some information in regard /
% the new road into Birmingham :
through Middle Tennessee to be
known as the Cincinnati and Biz
road. The history of {
this road is briefly as follows, as
given to the reporter by Capt.
Dougherty:
'1u July, 1886, a convention was
held at Fayetteville, of the repre-
sentative citizens OF Lincoln com
ty for the purpose of considering
the advisability of establishing such |
line. This convention appointed |
a committee on railro ads. A con
vention was held later at Tullahoma
on Sept. %, composed of delegates
from lower Kentucky, Middle Ten
nessee and Northern Alabs ma.
'Atterward the executive com
mlttee was clothed with power to
have charge of the preliminary ar
engagements, to report later.
"On Dec. Is, 1886, the commit
tee visited Cincinnati and held a
conference with the officials Of the
Cincinnati Southern road, and the
leading citizens received dattering
encouragement to collect further
information as to the resources and
the desire of the people on the pro
| posed route for the establishment
of the road. The committee we're
instructed to submit q further re
port to the president OF the CIncin-
natl Southern. For this purpose
statistics and other information is
now being collected.
CAT a meeting held in this city
to-day, Saturday by the stock
holders for Tennessee, the road was
organized under the name of the
| Cincinnati and Birmingham rail-
road. The officers elected were:
| President, NJ. R Campbell Of lula
bona; secretary, J, G. Dougherty OF
Fayetteville; treasurer, G. c. Crane
of Tullahoma. The directors are:
W. r. French of Tullahoma, ii. II
Bryson of Fayetteville, W. H.
IGoodpasture of Livingston. John
Fl. McMillin of Selma, A. G. Neig-
ley of Nashville, and H. A. Wiley Of
Woodbury."
"Do you Think" inquired the re
porter, chat there will be any con-
solidation of the interests of the
three states soop?"
eyes; at very early time there
will be a meeting of the directors
as far as Tennessee, Kentucky and
Alabama are concerned, will hold {
? meeting at either Tullahoma oil
Nashville and consolidate the con
Germ into one organization"
: "When Will the work be begun?
''It's expected that the surveyor:
will be put into the field by Februa
ry or early in March. The roat
will start from Monticello or Poin
Burnside on the Cincinnati South
t ern road and extend through Ten
e nessee west of the Cumberland
mountains, touching probably a
Shelbyville, Tullahoma, Fayette
= vile, Huntsville and on to Biz
m,ngham, ultimately through t.
the gulf.
: "It will be SEEM" continued Capt
! Dougherty, 'by glance at the maj
that the road will pass through ;
vast and populous territory whicl
q possesses no north and south rOat
I; passing through it. The adyanta
q ges to accrue to the people of tina
= territory and particularly 20 thos'
t Of Tennessee are inealculahle.
"Whst new Geld will this ney
road open upE"
. The road, in the three states
will pass through some Of the fines
mineral and grain sections Of coun
try in the southern states. Thes
" minerals embrace the finest Goa
both for domestic and coking pnr
i SEES; the deposits of iron, oil, lea
2, and marble, besides the undevelop
r ed timber interests.
y "The newly proposed east an
t. west Road to be built by I. G. Lea
of Memphis and A. i. Crawford {
Newcastle, Pa, from Memphis b
h Nashville into Eastern Tennessee
h will intersect the north and sout
4 road in Putnam or OveTton cOun
70 ties, Just west of the CHAMBERLAIN
mountains. Mr.. Crawford propo
ses to build road from his co;
e. lands to Nashville and he will prof.
ID ably also build one from Carthae
lp or some point on the Cumberlan
> river to intersect the north an
i, south road, possibly in one of I'll
bit two counties which | have jul
&c mentioned"
is "Will this city receive any dire
n benefit from the building Of the.
s. roads?'
D. "Undoubtedly. Nashville will |
& greatly benefited in the near fl
ture, both by the mining Of co
Lo and iron and through the trade dt
~ velopuent of the timber lar
:" through which this line will pas
Then coal can be furnished
~ Nashville consumers at the rate
- from 9 to 10 cents hushel Il
year round. The object of the sho
- line to be built by Mr.. Crawfol
y from his coal fields to the Cumbe
:, land river is to furnish Nashvil
~ with cheap coal and iron ore"
- what other advantages do IL
oe proprietors of the road claim?"
- THAT it will give to Nashvil
VI another line to the north via CT
30 cinnati; and so cheap passeng'
and freight rates, by competitio
ne to New York. The east and we
8. roads in Tennessee are an advat
ii. tage most certainly; but not s
re great as will be north and sout
tx line.n
is "Whyf'
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